Blogs as Portfolios

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Standards-Based Blogging Portfolios

Michelle Krill / AL10

http://goo.gl/qnZvk

link to her presentation

Think of a binder for your portfolio so take all of your paper and put it online
Assessment of your learning

Can keep your document ongoing, it does not stop

Show the students the diagram of questions before


Great graphic about ePortfolios

IF you use a blog, you can get interaction about your work
Can track of your student work, your essays

Great book...Curriculum 21...essential education for a changing world

In Rhode Island, all students have ePortfolios...is a graduation requirement

Each student has their own blog
The blogs are then on the teacher page
Teaching blogs
  • create them as class
  • make teacher as administration...add users, type in username with underscore
  • look at dashboard to see links
  • manage themes...show how to choose theme
  • either make blog public or private so parents can comment
  • can save as draft so post is private until it is finished
  • use tags that are stardards of education....wow great idea...this shows the student why teacher is teaching
  • username.....must think about this so their name is not out on the web
  • categories are the folders and tags as the papers inside the
  • use inspiration to create a story map to plan out their portfolio

**Standards** pde site
  • transliteracy standard ...great standard for blogs and wikis
  • Go on the PDE site
Could add their blog to their website of their portfolio
Blogging can encourage creativity in students
The students can add poems , stories, essays to their blog
comments4kids is a great way to get comments about their blog